The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-03-13
CATHOLIC CHURCH NOTES.
what is Going on in Catholic Circles
Throus hSut the State

A project is on foot for the erection of
new American College in Rome, the
present building being to small. The new
College will have a church attached Tor
the benefit Of American Visitors.
On the. first Sunday of Lent, the collec-
ton in aid of the Indian and Colored mis-
sions in the United States, was taken up in
the Church of Our Lady of Grace, Ho-
boken, in accordance with the order of the
Third Plenary Council, of Baltimore. The
collection amounted to $145.
IT, wes announced IN the Church of Our
Lady of Grace, Hoboken, last Sunday, that
the laws of the diocese now allowed only
twelve carriages at any funeral; and that
such being the case, the priests of the do
cese were required to enforce this reguls
ton, and the clergy of the Church of Our
Lady of Grace intended to do so.
On Monday, March 81, the Feast of st.
Benedict will be celebrated at St. Mary's
Benedictine Abbey, High street, Newark,
with great ponp and ceremony Rt. Rev.
Bishop Wigger will celebrate the solemn
pontifcal high mass, beginning at 8 80 a.
In., and many Of the prominent clergy of
the diocese have been invited to attend.
On Wednesday evening, March 2, Rev.
Father Hammer, rector of st. Lucy's
Church, began course of sermons on the
Sacrament of Penance. They will be cor
tinued by him every Wednesday evening
during Lent except Wednesday in Holy
Week, when the Stations of the Cross will
be made instead. On Good Friday, &C.
riding to custom. the sermon will be on
the Passion of our Lord.
Rev. P. Corr. rector of the Catholic
Church at Hackensack, preached an elo-
uuent sermon on .sThe Mercy of God in
st. Marys Church, Erie and Second streets,
en- last Sunday evening. Rev. Father Sc
ney kindly allowed collection to be takeu
up after the sermon for the benefit of
Father Corr's church. in which he is now
engaged in making extensive repairs and
improvements. rather Corr lectures this
evening in the Church of Our Lady of
Grace, Hoboken.
Right Rev. Bishop Bayley, the first
Catholic Bishop of New JERSEY, obtained
many years ago from Pope Plus TX, the
privil, ge Of plenary indulgence for all the
faithful of the Diocese of Newark who ap-
proach the Sacramento of Penance and the
Holy Eucharist worthily on St. Patrlck's
Day, or on any day within the octave, and
otherwise comply with the.usual conditions
prescribed in such cases. This privilege
has been very generally taken advantage
of ever since, and, no doubt, will be this
year.
Rev. Fathers Connolly and Boylan, the
efficient curates of the Church of Cur Lady
of Grace, Hohoken, have just completed
the census OF that parish. They find the
total Carhel;c population to be S,220 per-
sons. When the census was taken about
five years ago, the population was 6.312
persons. The curates were five mouths at
the work and it has been done with great
care and accuracy. Father Corrigan is
mach attached to his curates, and is quite
enthusiastic when speaking OF their merite.
He says they may possibly be equalleG bat
they cannot be excelled, in the State.
The following resolution was unani-
mously adopted by the Irish American
Union of New York, at a meeting held
on the evening of March 8, inst and
orderded TO be cabled to Cardinal Gle
bous at Rome: Recognizing the Catholic
Church as ever the friend of liberty we
desire to place on record our most hearty
Apr citation of the magnificent letter of
Cardinal Gilebou's in defence of the pop
ular right TO Combine for the settlements
of material Conditions in intelligsntly
conducted. law abiding organizations,
such as the Knights of Laber."
The Church of the Holy Rosary-the
Italian Catholic Church of this city-on
Sixth street, has more attendants of other
nationalities than it has of the sons and
daughters of sunny Italy The worthy
priest, Rev. Father Chuiso, it is Under
stood, hnd hard work to make ends meet
financially. although he lives in couple
of rooms in a very humble way for clergy
man. at the corner of Sixth and Monmouth
streets. He has under consideration plan
by which he may dispense with paying
rent, and 1t is to erect small addition to
the church, consisting of few rooms, in
which he may reside, and in this way be
always on hand for any services that may
be required Of him in his clerical capacity.
The corner stone of the new st. Joseph's
Church. corner of Carol and Market
streets. Paterson, will be laid with the
usual impressive Gel emonies by Right Rev.
Bishop Wigger, on Sunday, III ~ 8. The
new edifice will be 70 feet front by 155 feet
deep. built of Belleville stone, and will
have chapel connected with it. The total
cost is expected to be $4,000, and the
church will be finished in one year. Mr..
Schickel, of New York, is the architect.
On the completion of the new edifice the
present church will be converted into a
school. There will also be hall for meet
ings, societies, &c. Rev. DR.. Smith is the
rector of the parish.
Rev. NJ j. Brennan, of st. James's
Church, Newark, and recently of the
Church of ST. Paul of the Cross, on the
Heights. being learned man and very
ready and witty speaker, is very much in
demand for lectures and sermons. Last
Wednesday evening he preached the Lenten
discourse at ST. johns Church, V n Wrinkle
street; on the morning of March II, at the
high mass in st. James's Church, Newark,
he will preach the panegyric of st. Patrick,
and ia the evening of the same day he will
speak on the same subject in the Catholic
Church at Ssanhope, N. j., of which Rev.
Father Huggens, formerly curate at st.
Paul's of the Gross, is rector; and on Sun
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